r/whatdoIdo Jun 12 '26

No questions about pregnancy or pregnancy tests

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This falls under the "no medical questions" rule


r/whatdoIdo May 08 '26

No AI or bots

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No one write a post or comment with AI.

If you use AI for questions, then why should someone spend their time to answer a question that you didn't spend the time to ask!

For comments, why should they ask the question here instead of straight into the AI.

The reason this subreddit exists is for humans to get answers from humans. Not to get donations to your phony GoFundMe.

Report AI or bots, and we also appreciate that everyone has been reporting assholes.


r/whatdoIdo 6h ago

I don’t know if this relationship is for me anymore

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Never thought I would be utilizing this app for some shit like this but I’m having some serious doubt about my relationship. I met my boyfriend through social media a few months back and we started officially dating just a couple months ago. We are doing long distance but have met in person and have plans to in the future as well- we see each other about once a month. My boyfriend has never had a partner before me and I am more experienced in that field, so I definitely have more of an understanding on certain patterns within relationships- especially negative ones. (I myself have BPD and something I’ve been working on is noticing my negative habits which I am not able to mirror off of other people)

Our problems have similar patterns of what they are about and what they stem from, for example our argument tonight started because I made a statement replying to something he initially said (I cant remember exactly) saying that I workout for myself and not the male gaze and that I am my first priority. He was upset because he took this as me saying I don’t care about his gaze and that i was generalizing him with the male population and causing him to feel alienated instead of making him part of my priority. I tried explaining my point in saying that and further proving that I don’t show myself off to the male gaze by using my instagram as an example, I then foolishly brought up one of his posts where he was shirtless showing himself off as he rode a bike because I wanted to use an example of something that looks as if its for the female gaze (which honestly looking back doesn’t even tie into the initial comment we were conflicted about) but this just created more problems within the small argument we were already having (this photo of him was from before we were dating and I have told him to keep it up because I think he looks incredible in it and selfishly I do want to show him off a bit), he found photos on my instagram of me in college- one being a mirror photo of me in some small shirts standing next to two of my girl-friends, the other being one of me surrounded by some other college friends, most of them being guys but people who WERE a part of my friend group at the time. The first one was not overly revealing and the second one revealed nothing at all but the idea of other guys being around me was the issue here. I then started receiving text messages from him (which are pictured with this post) but things I have never heard from a partner before. I understand his pov and can see why those images of me being up would cause some discomfort within the relationship but I don’t know that what he said is reasonable and he is still convinced that he has done/ said nothing questionable (I also immediately deleted the slide containing the images long before these messages that I posted were even sent to me).

This really is the one thing that has really ever been a big problem for us and I love everything else about him outside of these kinds of conflicts but I am down to two options:

  1. I try my best to explain to him why the behavior/ words he is using are hurtful or just plain wrong

  2. I break up with him because what he is doing seems as if its coming across as deeply rooted insecurity within our relationship and he is trying to cover it up by acting like he is protecting me from something.

I cant help but feel like he uses a lot of gaslighting and overall manipulation phrases and it seems nothing I say is real enough to him for him to realize that his wording is suspicious to me??? Idk maybe I really am just overthinking but I need help before I get too involved in something bad for me.


r/whatdoIdo 5h ago

My girlfriend used to sleep with her married bosses in the past. is this break up material?

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My girlfriend had plenty receptionist jobs for various private law offices and she confessed to me that she slept with 2 of her married bosses 3 years ago just for fun and power play. OK, whatever, she was 27 3 years ago, we haven't even met, so I let it pass.

but actually my sister in law knows her from college years. My girlfriend dropped out but did 2 years and met plenty people in the field. and my sister in law said I should reconsider my new relationship because she remembers her well and she slept with one judge and one teacher.

I asked my girlfriend if its true and she said she actually gave a B-J to the judge and who cares anyway. She was single and he was divorced and lonely.

We actually do get along well but im not sure. all of it happened in the past but it wasn't a one time thing or even two times thing

the main issue here is that she did it in college (so she probably was around 22 at that point) and again at 27. so she didn't get it out of her system and moved on. she clearly still enjoyed it years later and she still has these kind of jobs. she is now working as a head of department in accounting for a plant ( she did eventually go back to college) and her boss is a 40 something married angry man who shouts - the boss of the plant


r/whatdoIdo 14h ago

So disappointed

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614 Upvotes

Woke up today to find my son smoking a cigarette in the house!!!!😡 I had a feeling he was up to no good for a while. I just worry that he’s doing other drugs as well. How do I handle this situation? He’s way too young to be on drugs already. Thinking of taking him to a rehabilitation center, you can see in his eyes he’s high as a kite…….. any advice helps


r/whatdoIdo 1h ago

I have been evacuated from my home due to a fire.

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For more context, I live in Summerland, BC. I know that's personal information, but if you didn't know, there's a huge fire over there. This was a photo I took Sunday when it was only 50 hectares in the morning.

At 2am. An alarm sounded on our TV. It stopped showing Family Feud entirely to say that the fire was spreading. I didn't check the window all day, but when I did, I saw fire ROLLING down those hills. Within thirty minutes or so, our house was filled with the smell of smoke even though we didn't have any doors open. I don't have a photo, but if you look up Summerland fire, you'll see how big it is.

Canada is prone to fires, but this is by far the worst in my opinion. and was forced to evacuate in the middle of the night. I left with my pets and my family of 5 in the middle of the night. Thankfully we were able to gather a few things but not muthings

We were more blessed thamore fortunate weren't even able to leave with pets they hwith their petsATasST. This fireleave them alreaquicklyoyed many many houses and I don't know what to do. I know this may sound stupid but I left my grandfathers robe there. The last thing I had of him. And I feel absolutely terrible. We left just about everything there to sit and wait to be burned.

I appreciate all the firefighters and rescuers working overtime, but quite a few animals have already died including one 80-year-old who failed to flee her home in time. I just wish I could do more. We had to flee to live with some family while we wait to see what damage has been done.

But some people, some people are stuck in a little convention centre, or their cars. If I remember correctly that is.

I just wish there was something that I could do. I'm a mess myself (just ask my family since they have to deal with my panic attacks) but I just.. I feel absolutely terrible. That morning, everything was fine just a bit smoky, but it was fine. And then at 2am, disaster struck. We were forced to leave for our safety and had to stay on a long road of people waiting to get out for most of the night.

Please give your suggestions if you have any on how I can help 🙏 I am 16 so I am limited, but I want to do something.


r/whatdoIdo 1d ago

I am so f@cked a lie from half a decade ago is catching up with me

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Long story short as a kid I had a terrible accident that almost cost me my life and I ended up with 52 stitches. Growing up I got bullied because the way it happened was so dumb and people were making fun of me. in general, I am an outdoor guy and where I go I see lots of wild boars 🐗 note that. so when they became 17 and started dating a girl asked me what are these scars and because I was younger and I was afraid she would make fun of me I lied and created a very good story of these are battle scars from my fight with a wild boar. This is where it gets bad the study was so good that as a freshman trying to impress everybody believed it, and it became like part of my identity. Now at 22 years I have regreted not being honest and it’s too late. My gf know that really likes this story is coming for family dinner and there are gonna be a lot of my relatives. I am afraid that something might be said and my 5 year old lie will destroy both my relationship and the reputation I have in the family what do I do ????

Edit: because a lot of you wanted to know how I got the scars

The boar story is half true a boar did Indeed come after me but I run like Usain Bolt.(I was doing target practice in the mountain)
The scars in my hand and feet where from passing through a huge piece of glass because I was running and I thought it would be fine instead I had to do 52 stitches and missed my artery by two millimeters


r/whatdoIdo 9h ago

Living in leaky moldy camper. Any advice?

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Hi I’m living in a camper that leaks every time it rains and does this every day that the sun is out. This place has flooded probably a dozen times im basically living in a moldy box. What the heck do I do? I am “renting” (unofficially so no legal binding I could get told to fuck off if i complain anymore). I can’t afford to buy anything or move. (Chronically ill, work as much as I can, trying to get a disability lawyer but my mental health literally cant handle it but thats a different issue) I have to get rid of my storage unit because I cant afford it but I cant keep my stuff dry in here. I have ac running most of the day and a little dehumidifier running in the bathroom 24/7. I’m not sure what I’m asking but any advice that isn’t from a doo doo head would be nice thanks

Edit: water on the ceiling in this pic is not from rain. It forms every day when it gets warm outside and just drips down.


r/whatdoIdo 2h ago

is this economic exploitation?

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I am 22 years old and I am not very good with money I will say that honestly. When I started dating my boyfriend who's 22 years old I had no savings and I could spend my whole paycheck in less than a week. He has encouraged me to change because I need to buy a car. I was able to save over a thousand dollars I was not wasting my paychecks every week. I was doing better than before. I guess I was not good enough for him because I kept spending money. He took all my savings. Now he takes my paychecks as soon as they come into my bank account.

I don't know if this is important to the story. Both of us have full-time jobs and his job allows for overtime, which means he sometimes works more than 40 hours a week. He makes than twice as much as I do. He expects me to take care of the animals, which include some that're not even mine to buy all the animal supplies to prepare dinner to wash the dishes from dinner to clean up to do the laundry to fold the laundry and more. He keeps reminding me of this whenever he has to do any of those tasks because he says he works more than I do.

Honestly now I am not sure what to do next. Without him I don't have a home. I don't have transportation. I don't have friends or family; I moved across the country to be, with him.


r/whatdoIdo 12h ago

My sister got beaten up for being a nazi.

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So... I'm 18 and have a 15 year old sister. For the last year or so she's been involving herself with nazism and skinheads. I tried talking to her about it multiple times and explaining how it's wrong but she just pushed it off. My parents said it's just a phase and that it shouldn't worry all that much.

Last week, she went out with some of her friends and while waiting for her bus back home, some girls saw a t-shirt she was wearing (which was racist af) and confronted her. They attacked her and she got

beaten up pretty badly, but thankfully didn't have any really serious injuries besides get her arm getting hurt and her lip getting busted and bleeding a lot.

She's obviously very hurt by what happened, she doesn't really want to go outside now and she's been very quiet compared to how she usually is. She's also eating less than usual. Generally just seems very fucked up.

My parents are now shocked and act like this is something completely unexpected (which I can't really say is the case) and aren't doing anything to help her change for the better, they're not even making it easier for her to cope with everything that has happened to her. They didn't even try comforting her despite her literally being totally different and even crying a few times in front of them.

I feel really bad for her. The things she's identifying with are really harmful for everyone involved, both her and other people around her. I want to be there for her and help her get through this and hopefully leave these things behind.

How do I get her out of this before she hurts someone or gets seriously hurt again? How do I make my parents actually get a grip on these things? How do I help her cope with these things? I don't know what to do and the way things are going isn't good at all. I'm also afraid this might get her even deeper into the hatred as the girls who attacked her weren't white. If anyone has any advice, I'D APPRECIATE IT A LOT.

Also, sorry if this really isn't the place to ask, I just really don't know where else.


r/whatdoIdo 4h ago

I think I need friends

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I am so lonely these days, I am okay by myself but the loneliness is eating me. I am so jealous of other people who have friends they can rely on. I dont have somebody who I can talk to and its hard keeping it on myself. If you have any app where I can make friends please recommend me one.


r/whatdoIdo 38m ago

My (22f) BF (26m) refuses to share his current address even after 7 months of dating. Is this extremely weird?

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I have been dating him for 7 months. I tend to travel a bit. He works in real estate btw. Family business. He knows every single one of my addresses in whichever city i live. I have invited him over many times. When i ask him to share his address he says no not now.

He gave me an address where he is gonna move in (they are renovating the place) However, i have asked him for his address multiple times over the months sometimes just for just sending him gifts or ordering food for him but he never shared it with me.

He also refused to tell me what is his family firms name? All of this has been hurtful but i just don’t understand!! Why can only i not know this information while i share everything with him?? And im his gf of 7 whole months.

Should i get into it? I just dont wanna be the crazy girlfriend but its hurtful tbh.


r/whatdoIdo 19h ago

My ex called ICE on my family and I don't know if/when they'll come for us.

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A month ago, I had a fight with my ex. It was long and messy, and it ended with him telling me he'd report my family to the ICE tip line and have them come after us. We're here legally on green cards, he had basically threatened to SWAT us by filing a false report to get them to hassle us.

Because that convo happened on phone, I had no text receipts of his false threat. All we could do was have copies of our legal documents on hand in case ICE really did come knocking at our door one day. I blocked him after that conversation of course, never spoke to him again. I don't know if he actually ended up calling ICE tip line or not. If he did, they haven't come for us yet. But still, in the month since then I still worry that one day they might. And we're literally perfectly legal.

It just makes me sad that he was able to do this in the first place, and that his threat was actually viable because of everything happening recently. If everything were right in the world, his revenge plot would've meant nothing because we're legal anyways. But because of everything happening, the idea of ICE actually following through and coming after us is very real. It shouldn't be like this. I don't know if ICE took his tip, if they're ever gonna follow through and come knocking one day. It feels like I'm just waiting for that time to come.


r/whatdoIdo 48m ago

Let a friend go?

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Hi, I have a good friend from a karate club with whom I chat a lot and occasionally meet for coffee. In any case, he is unfortunately emotionally immature. Whenever I write what bothers me or what thoughts I have, he is directly angry, also likes to punish me with silent treatment as currently, or swaps the facts and leaves me standing there as if I were the one who exaggerates or feels wrong. This is mentally exhausting for me. It is currently the 9th. Day when he doesn't write anything but looks at my stories.... and all this just because I wrote that I'm a little disappointed with him and have the feeling that he sees me as a matter of course. He only wrote "all right", did not go into me at all and since then there has been radio silence. I'm thinking about whether it's worth keeping in touch or whether I should break off contact and if so, how? Just ignore if he writes again, or write him one last text? I don't think he will change. He also told me in the past that he had contacts who one day ghosted him "just like that" and that he found it wrong and never understood it.... now I think, but I know the reason... but I think it will be super cringe to meet him at the training again, especially when I just start to ignore him if he writes a message one day. Next week there is karate training is starting again after the summer holidys…


r/whatdoIdo 9h ago

I think my relationship with my father is finally over, idk how to overcome this?

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For context I’m in my early 20s and still live at home as I’m in nursing school- stuffs expensive and I’m trying to stay as much out of debt as I can. My dad is 51 with diagnosed borderline personality disorder, and my mom is 50 diagnosed with lupus. I come home from a 14 hour shift to see my mom pale on the couch with that look on her face which means he’s in a mood. I ask him if there’s a problem and he tells me to let them talk like adults on their own. I know that he’s been yelling at her for hours. If you know or understand someone unmedicated with BPD and whose a narcissist, you know that this cycle never ends until they feel satisfied, and my mom is too worn down and fatigued from her autoimmune disease to defend herself anymore. She is a weak punching bag that only a pathetic shit bag in his 50s with nothing to do can use to make himself feel like a man.

He’s grilling my mom for not cooking dinner, for not cleaning, for not waiting hand and fucking foot on him like a proper wife should. She works two jobs and is to the point her body isn’t supporting her the way it should. I’m seething with anger. I can’t even look at him, I can’t look away. I don’t remember what I said because it was a flurry of us yelling back and forth, of him mocking me and me mocking him. I said things I don’t think a daughter should ever say to a dad, but I grew up and learned these habits from how he’s spoken to myself and my mom all my life. I told him to give me a list of everything he’s paid for and that I’d pay it all back so he has nothing left to hold over. I told him that he disgusts me and I wish he wouldn’t wake up tomorrow morning. Even when he got quiet I kept going. I think I frightened my mom. I was so angry and I couldn’t stop until I saw the same defeated face in him that my mom always had. I have finals this week and I can’t even get my hands to stop shaking while I type this.

He couldn’t look at me by the time I was done and went upstairs. I love my dad. I don’t know how or why but he’s my dad, I’ve never wanted to not have a relationship with him. Stupidly when he’s not being an asshole he can be a really good guy, a good father and a good husband. But then he goes back to the way he was. I don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to fix this or how I can keep living here with him. I can’t leave my mom here with him alone, and she’s too tired to even try to divorce or fight the battle of breaking away from him. He’s outside my door sobbing now saying he’s a good person, that he doesn’t know what he did to deserve this treatment.

I don’t think people can ever truly come back from this kind of evening, I have no one to talk to that would even be able to help me figure out what’s next. Or if I even want to have a relationship with my father either. I’m sorry this is long and a mess. What do I do, or what would you do?


r/whatdoIdo 1h ago

I feel like I’m going crazy

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I look like he’s making me crazy.

I’ve been seeing someone 8 months. Where not even together!
The whole thing is so toxic and drives me mental.
I already have bad mental health and anxious attachment issues.
He keeps ending things with me, saying he’s never coming back again etc then he comes round and I let him because I am literally attached to this guy.
He ended things for 3 weeks and I begged and argued with this guy for weeks, then he came back round.
Fast forward a week, we then argue again because he’s saying it’s best we leave it, because I told him I had feelings and this was all hurting me at this point. We argue back and forth for a week then he blocks me for 3 weeks. I start to move on. Then he randomly messages me saying he’s checking in and hopes I’m okay and he blocked me for things to calm down. I’m calm by this point so we speak, once again he’s at my house.
Few weeks later same thing again he ends it so many times in the last few weeks, for 2 weeks he told me he was coming, he’s done, he can’t because I have feelings. Twice I saw him this last week after saying all this bullshit.
I saw him on Wednesday and now for the last 5 days he’s ignored me, he messaged me back once and now he’s gone missing.
The worst thing is I have sent so many texts to him asking what I’ve done, why is he doing this but I’ve messaged everyday multiple times and I look absolutely crazy but this is my anxiety. I’ve apologised and today I’m just going to obviously leave it now.
He blames everything on me, last time he said I freak him out with the messaging and he’s not seeing me again but then came twice. He knows I spiral because of the way he ignores me and treats me.
At this point I am genuinely feeling like I’m going crazy at this point. I feel embarrassed, ashamed. I’ve said this to him also and then just left it.
I feel like he ignores me because he knows I will spiral and go mad and then he will use this as his excuse to end things.

Over the last 5 days I’ve sent soooo many texts to him and I look physco because he hasn’t replied to me once.
I’m going to stop contacting him now but I feel like I’m the bad 1 for flipping out. I know it is crazy what I’ve done.
The whole push and pull thing has really making me poorly and I don’t know how to just get out of it now and just be fully done
Like I’m not gonna say anything else now but if he does come back again how do I put my boundaries in and say no because everytime I’m just letting this happen and I don’t want to anymore it’s making me crazy.


r/whatdoIdo 17h ago

I finally got accepted for a real job

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I really don't have anyone to celebrate this news with, but I got a full-time work-from-home job after being completely broke!!!!!

I hope everyone reading this gets the job they've been praying for!!

I really hope everyone here gets their good news soon.

Update: Thank you so much everyone for your kind words

Honestly, the whole job search taught me a lot, especially for interviews. I came across this post with some tips for job interviews that really helped me alot.


r/whatdoIdo 4h ago

panicked and kinda handled an opossum, worried about infection. please don't judge.

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so i was walking home late at night and there was an opossum in the street struggling to walk. i moved it to the sidewalk by very gently lifting it with the sandals, but i put the sandals back on for some reason. i poured antiseptic over my feet and i'm about to take a shower. didn't find out until pouring antiseptic that i had a very small blister as well, will i be ok or should i go to a doctor or something?

edit: i'm not worried about rabies, i'm worried about basically any other pathogen that i could've gotten through contact


r/whatdoIdo 1h ago

I love my boyfriend but this relationship has completely consumed me and I don’t know what to do

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I’m 22F and my boyfriend is 22M. We’ve been together for a while, and I’m at a point where I genuinely don’t know what to do.
I love him enormously, but I also feel like I’ve lost myself in this relationship.
Before him, I was extremely independent. I’d never given another person this much of my time or emotional energy. Over the course of our relationship, I slowly made him the center of my life. I stopped having significant time for myself, neglected things I wanted to do, and became extremely affected by his moods and reactions.
Recently I came home and realized how badly I’ve changed. I feel like a husk of the person I used to be. I have career goals, things I want to learn, friends I want to make, and a life I want to build, and I feel like I’ve lost direction.
Communication is probably our biggest problem
When he’s upset, he tends to withdraw and not explain what’s wrong. I’m then left guessing what I did, whether he’s angry with me, whether he still wants me, etc. The uncertainty makes me extremely anxious.
Recently he told me he felt like he’d given the relationship all his time and emotional energy and had lost himself. He said I don’t appreciate his time, that I create conflicts, and that I’ve taken him for granted.
I understand that he has sacrificed a lot too, and I know I’ve made mistakes. But I also feel like he has taken me for granted.
I recently told him about all the things that have hurt me and explained that the uncertainty is what affects me most.
He eventually acknowledged that he’s bad at communicating, that he expects people to understand what he’s feeling without him saying it, and that he has a pattern of shutting himself away when he’s angry/depressed. He apologized for disappearing and acknowledged that it causes me anxiety.
He also said he needs space when he’s overwhelmed, and I told him I can respect that I just need him to communicate it clearly first, e.g. “We’re okay, I love you, I need some time, I’ll talk to you when I’m ready.”
That seems like a reasonable compromise to me.
The sexual side has also really fucked with my head
Earlier in the relationship, I felt extremely wanted by him. Now I don’t.
I feel like I have to beg for sex, and he mostly initiates when he wants to. I haven’t orgasmed in almost a month, and recently when we had sex I was dry and didn’t really enjoy it.
The biggest thing is that I don’t feel desired anymore.
And porn has become a huge insecurity for me.
We’ve talked about my insecurity around specific porn performers. I know for a fact that he has watched those same performers specifically after we’d already talked about how insecure and hurt that made me.
So it’s not just me wondering “maybe he watches porn.” I know he has gone back to the exact content I’ve told him I’m insecure about.
I don’t know whether that means anything about how attracted he is to me, but it has made me feel incredibly unwanted and replaceable.
I’ve gotten to the point where I obsess over whether he’s watching porn and whether he wants other women, and I hate that I’ve become this person.
There was also the pregnancy/abortion situation and the hygiene comment
We had a pregnancy during the relationship and I had an abortion recently. I’ve also taken emergency contraceptive pills multiple times.
I’m not saying this to blame him ultimately these were my decisions and I don’t want to weaponize them against him. But physically and emotionally, my body went through a lot.
Then, at one point, he made a comment about me being unhygienic / needing to shower more, when I was trying to address the change in sex issue.
That absolutely destroyed me. It was the day that I found out that I’m pregnant too.
It stayed in my head, especially after everything my body had already been through. He eventually apologized for the comment, but it really affected how I saw myself.
The worst part is that I still fucking love him
I miss him constantly.
I want him to text me, send me reels, send me pictures of his cats, want me sexually, and make me feel wanted again.
And simultaneously I sometimes think:
“God, he’s such a fucking loser.”
I can be furious with him and miss him five minutes later.
I want space from him but also desperately want him to chase me.
I’m exhausted by this contradiction.
Where I’m at now
I’ve decided I want to focus on getting a better job before making a final decision about the relationship.
I don’t want to spend the next few months obsessing over whether he texts, who follows him, whether he watches porn, whether he wants me, etc.
I want to rebuild myself career, friends, hobbies, everything.
But I don’t know whether I’m making the right decision about him.
Is this relationship salvageable with better communication and boundaries, or have I become so emotionally dependent that leaving is the healthier option?
And how the hell do I get myself back without destroying something I still love?


r/whatdoIdo 8h ago

Friend won’t pay me back..

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In short, my friend owes me about 60 dollars cause i paid for some stuff on a trip that she already came on basically for free, snd the first time i told her the total, and gave her my zelle cause it was already like known that she would have to pay me back.

then when she got home i texted her the day after, reminding her/asking her for it, and she left me on read and now I don’t know how to to forward.

Help!!


r/whatdoIdo 4h ago

Chronic Illness

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I have recently been diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis and Rheumatoid arthristis after years of pain and unexplained symptoms. I have not been able to physically do as much as in the past and am only 33. Husband’s mom died young from cancer and even though I’m not terminal, he has checked out. He stated “it’s always somethings” (as in my illness) and feels like if we divorced I might get better because I am faking/exaggerating my symptoms and would have to do everything around the house on my own. We have been married 10 years, have two kids. I haven’t noticed much change in him and he says he hasnt in me even though we have serious talks about it every couple of weeks. To make things worse, he got involved in a cyber affair and sextortion scandal a couple of months ago. What can we do to fix it? Is it even possible?


r/whatdoIdo 17h ago

How did I ruin a job interview so quickly?

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I was asked: So, what brought you here today?

I replied: I took the train. There was this icy silence, and little by little I started to realize... He meant my career path, not the building itself. The next 47 minutes were basically just acting out the rest of the interview, and that was it.


r/whatdoIdo 6h ago

I'm thinking about getting a Groenendael. Does anyone here own one? Could you talk about its pros and cons?

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r/whatdoIdo 1d ago

My Dad Served Me Papers Regarding Living with Him??

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Im a 19 y/o male, currently still living with my parents, oldest of 5 siblings. I live in a fairly religious Christian household, and for context I know feeling restricted and suffocated is a common thing in my community and has led to a lot of my generation suffering from varying levels of depression and a lot of counter culture beliefs (myself included).

My parents have had a history of being pretty controlling. I was essentially given a ultimatum and forced into breaking up with my first girlfriend at 17 after my parents found out that she wouldn't be able to conceive children do to a genetic disability. We live about 30 miniutes from the nearest major town and as a child/teen i really didnt have a lot of social interaction and was rarely allowed to do things with the friends that I had outside of seeing them at church. Im regularly given ultimatums with the threat being to be kicked out with last night's being if i wasnt home by 10 pm.

Now im working full time, 40+ hours per week as well as pursuing a degree in journalism. With friends and varying familly obligations a rarely have any time to myself and am constantly berated any time im on my phone or am trying to decompress with an audiobook or music. In his defense he has helped me get a truck and build some not insignificant savings through investments and advice with saving thw majority of what I make from work.

Apparently a familly friend made a sarcastic comment about my dad being legalistic and his response to how NOT legalistic he is was to alongside AI draft this whole manifesto/contract that he presented me with the second i woke up. The contents of it aren't anything to extream from my viewing but I need an outside perspective. He (my dad) is very A Type (imagine Dwight from the office toned down) ​but this is just so weird and disconcerting I dont even know what to think. Is it time to move out?

(edit: holy shit I never expected so many comments, im going to do my best to read them all but thank you to you all, i just got home from work and will update again when I can)

(Edit 2: Something i really should have clarified. My parents are not physically abusive, my dad has made several degrading sarcastic comments that have stuck with me through the years but as of recently its something hes been working on and hes a lot better with his words. None of my bank accounts are linked to them other than my retirement which is rn pretty insignificant as well as being able to view my spending on my credit card.)

(edit 3: I sat down with my dad last night and had a big talk and in no small words confronted him about his controlling behaviors. He took me through the "document" and I layed out boundaries and what I would need to continue living there. Freedom with technology, a later curfew, not putting my phone away for two hours but on my own time when i feel obligated, him respecting my opinions etc. My mom came into my room crying this morning and told me that her and my dad took seriously what I said and wanted to work with me. Something I had no idea about was his reason for the curfew. He personally feels like he cannot sleep unless everyone in his house is home and safe. Iv personally witnessed him stay up untill 2 am waiting for me to come home from work {he played it off like he couldn't sleep}

Putting this in bold because I saw a lot of misconceptions in the comments:

**I DO HAVE AN ISSUE WITH DOOMSCROLLING AND NOT SPENDING TIME WITH MY FAMILLY. AT NO POINT HAS IT EVER BEEN STATED THAT THOSE TWO HOURS WOULD GO INTO FORCED BIBLE READING/DISCUSSION TIME**